I have a FLASH FREEBIE for you, dear teachers and parents! These flip books will make teaching forest animals a lot more fun! They all focus on the same vocabulary – woodland/forest animals. Also, b&w versions are available in the same pdf. I’ve included statements and questions, to help kids learn punctuation. These flip books…
Cute Owls
Materials: construction paper (we chose autumn colours), wrapping paper with a nice pattern, glue, scissors, and googly eyes. Instructions: Cut the pieces that the children can’t cut (depending on their age – don’t make things too easy). Then glue the eyes and the beak. That’s it! 🙂
How to Dye Pasta
I have discovered the most amazing thing! I can’t believe that in my five years of teaching kindergarten I never did this before. I read about it before, but I thought it would be too messy to do it. It’s…wait for it…coloured pasta! Yep, that’s the discovery. But what you can do with it afterwards…
A Super-Duper List of Songs :)
I have been teaching kindergarten for 5 years now, and my favourite thing to teach has always been music. Sure, I love doing crafts too, but when we learn songs everybody is singing, playing instruments, and dancing happily – while also learning. It’s the moment of the day when I can be silly and loud,…
Animals from Popsicle Sticks
Popsicle sticks are very easy to use and so versatile…you can teach numbers, make crafts, create stick puppets for songs and stories, use them to build something, etc. Here are some animal crafts that you can make with kids. You can use them to teach new songs, to learn about their body parts, to teach…
Clay Bugs
Materials: clay, beads, google eyes, pipe cleaners Instructions: It’s as easy as it gets! 🙂 The kids can give the clay any shape they want, then they add beads, eyes (as many as they want), legs, arms. You don’t even need glue for the decorations, just press them in the clay.